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Correlation-Based Distillation Yields More Mergeable Speech-Music Encoders
Fabian Ritter-Gutierrez
A single compact encoder for both speech and music removes the need to maintain a separate model per domain. A practical recipe distils a speech teacher and a music teacher into tw…
cs.SD2026
What Actually Makes Correlation-Based SSL Distillation Noise-Robust? A Mechanistic Correction
Fabian Ritter-Gutierrez, Nancy F. Chen, Eng Siong Chng
Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models are accurate but large. Knowledge distillation compresses them, but the student loses the teacher's noise robustness. Correlation-based…
eess.AS2026
FlowW2N: Whispered-to-Normal Speech Conversion via Flow-Matching
Fabian Ritter-Gutierrez, Md Asif Jalal, Pablo Peso Parada +5
Whispered-to-normal (W2N) speech conversion aims to reconstruct missing phonation from whispered input while preserving content and speaker identity. This task is challenging due t…